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Office-based ENT surgery: evidence summaries
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Office-based ENT surgery: what the evidence says about tolerance, safety and cost
Systematic reviews and expert statements on in-office ENT procedures under local anaesthesia: which procedures, tolerance, complications, costs and clinic set-up.
Balloon sinus dilation in the office: guidance, consensus and outcomes
What NICE, the AAO-HNSF clinical consensus statement and prospective studies report on balloon sinus dilation (balloon sinuplasty) under local anaesthesia, and where the evidence is still limited.
Balloon dilation of the Eustachian tube: definitions, consensus and trial data
Eustachian tube dysfunction subtypes, NICE IPG665, the AAO-HNSF consensus, randomised trial results and case series of balloon dilation under local anaesthesia in the office.
Office-based laryngology: the 2026 European consensus, lasers, injection augmentation and TNO
Indications from the European Practice Consensus on Office-Based Laryngology, evidence on in-office photoangiolytic and blue laser, awake vocal fold injection, transnasal oesophagoscopy and office biopsy.